Posted on 02/08/2026 3:30:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
A lone gray wolf padded quietly into Los Angeles County before dawn on Saturday — and made history.
State biologists say the female wolf may be the first documented in Southern California in 100 years, after the apex predators were wiped out across the state by eradication campaigns aimed at protecting livestock.
The last known wild wolf in California was shot on June 12, 1924, by federal trapper Frank W. Koehler in Lassen County.
The three-year-old female, known as BEY03F, was spotted on a trail camera in the mountains north of Santa Clarita.
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It was tagged and released, maybe “reintroduced”.
The State knew it was there before a pic on a trail cam made evidence of its presence.
And the Mexican Wolves.
Our cultural forebears went to a lot of trouble and expense to rid their lands of these creatures.
Now we are bringing them back. Fortunately, our advanced technology makes it easy to eliminate them when we decide to do so.
Wolves in the lower 48 only survive because they are actively protected by the government.
After they kill a few children, they will be eradicated again.
Unfortunately, many will say - it wasn’t all wolves! It was only a few - only that pack has to be removed.
Roger that
My first thought also
Spotted for the first time in 100 years.
Well they never disappeared just not seen.
LOL
Well it should keep down the coyote population. Take the win.
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One dark night sitting on the back porch with friends drinking a friendly beer, the local coyote populations began howling at each other, until a wolf howled - coyotes shut up and were not heard from for weeks.
A lone female marks the end of the line; no male, no pups. Unless she breeds with coyotes or domestic dogs, no offspring.
3 year old, she knows how to breed with feral dogs and coyote. More interesting would be where the tagged female was released. I doubt they released just one. How far did she travel. If she made it, solitary males can too when the impulse hits them in the spring. If she was tagged in the field and they checked DNA, is she a wolf or a hybrid? The state knows who she is and where she came from regardless of how she acquired the tag.
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